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Lots of interesting things in this miraculous story, but I can assure you none of these miracles would happen without the two words completely left out of the article: white privil…

All the US has to do is: nothing. Stop sending over tank shells [1], Fighter jets and attack helicopters [2], deploying aircraft carriers [3] and stop vetoing UN Security Council r…

Why is this flagged/down voted? Its just a plain statement of fact, supported by credible sources and references. Here's some more references if people think this didn't happen. Th…

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Iodized salt is almost always the industrially produced variety, pure NaCL and much more salty than the natural varieties - either sea or mountain salts that typically include othe…

The single biggest factor is the cost of medical education. Once a person spends a fortune getting their degree, it creates a gated community that works to preserve its privileges,…

Here we go again confusing correlation with causation. The medical field is mired with these: eat less to lose weight, reduce cholesterol to prevent heart attacks, reduce stress to…

She's referring to case law. The WSJ and the US Chamber of Commerce have been gunning for Lina Khan for a while now but I wouldn't bet against her. Even when losing, she's expandin…

Here's a contrarian opinion: Inflation isn't all that bad, if you have a fixed rate loan (i.e. mortgage) that is larger than all your savings put together, and as long as you don't…

The article goes into quite a lot of depth about all the sources of inflation and how to fix it without actually mentioning the predominant cause of the latest inflation: Corporate…

I'm no admirer of Jordan Peterson, but we don't have to speculate what the religious reaction to this nudity would have been. The Jews were there among the Greeks when all this was…

Exactly this. There's people responsible for not paying their parking tickets on time, and then there's folks such as Kissinger and Madeleine Albright that have the blood of hundre…

IBM is still #1 in patent grants [1] so there's still other groups there going strong I guess 1. https://www.ificlaims.com/rankings-top-50-2021.htm

Depends on who is doing the complaining, but yes there is precedent to arresting an employee for "theft of trade secrets" [1] 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Aleynikov

To quote a spiritual/philosophic answer from an Islamic perspective, there's a hadith where the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “The Hour will not begin until time …

Any time I read about how some part of the body has no function, I try to remember that our understanding of the body is superficial at best, it was only a 100 years ago when getti…

In India, and stretching into the Indian diaspora worldwide, Maggi Hot and Sweet sauce became extremely popular, and for some things such as samosas you can almost never use the re…

If you are bought in to GCP and plan to stay there, then maybe not much. OTOH, Anthos would allow you to do easier migrations from on-prem, support hybrid workloads, or consolidate…

Call me biased [1] but K8s will take over the world! Yes you get containers and micro-services and all that good stuff, but now with Anthos [2] its also the best way to achieve mul…

> I understand and I'm opposed to things like fat shaming and then we jump right into it > witnessing myself how people gorge on junk food and massively sugary starbucks drinks aro…

Lets not confuse correlation with causation. All this study shows is people with insulin resistance are at significant risk of dying from Covid, it doesn't identify what actually k…

You can count to a 100 on a single hand easily. Imagine each finger has four facets, and combining segments and joints you can count to 5 on each facet of each finger, gives you th…

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